[consulting] Staying Current

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

 > I think D5 is too big to EOL

Yeah, I know of another small piece of software that people constantly say
this about. It's called IE6, and it is the bane of most developers lives.

Don't encourage bad behavior. D5 will be EoL in a few short months. "It's
been real, but don't let the door hit you in the ass..."

FYI: at this point my feeling is that you couldn't pay us enough to maintain
D5 code past the D7 release. I can't speak for anyone else, but I have to
believe that most contributors feel the same way.

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Sean Burlington <sean at practicalweb.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Benjamin Melançon wrote:
>>
>> Agreed on the importance of staying current, but an upgrade is often
>> necessarily a redevelopment, which not all clients can afford.
>>
>> OpenFlows already maintains backports of security patches for Drupal
>> core and a few contrib modules used by the sites of behind-the-times
>> clients:
>>
>
> ... and my expectation is that if the security team drop support for D5
(as planned) then we'll find other people working on big D5 projects
contributing security fixes as well.
>
> This is potentially a really good way to get some of the companies
benefiting from Drupal to contribute stuff back.
>
> I think D5 is too big to EOL
>
> especially as D6 hasn't been complete enough (still no stable e-commerce)
for long enough (new D5 sites still being launched now)
>
>
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>
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